Sams Teach Yourself Dynamic HTML in a Week

By Rick Darnell and Bruce Campbell

A tutorial on all the technologies referred collectively as Dynamic HTML. It offers information on tags and concepts like the Document Object Model in a step-by-step manner, supported by examples. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575213354
• ISBN13: 9781575213354
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction

I knew a fair bit about HTML when I bought this and I learnt a great deal more from it. A very useful introduction to DHTML, I use it as a reference book. I don't agree with the reviewers who criticise it so heavily, I think it is well worth having on your shelf. OK there are non browser-independant examples, but you will soon work out what is going to work with each browser anyway (or you should!) PS OK one or two examples failed for me, but most are fine.

Not perfect, but better than most

I'm not for sure what the other three readers were looking for, but I found this book delivered on its promises (after all, if a 15-year programmer needs a Teach Yourself book for HTML and JavaScript, how good can he be?) There are some examples that don't work with both, which I contacted the author about, and received an adequate explanation. If you want to get your feet wet in Dynamic HTML, and don't have a lot of experience with programming and/or HTML, this is a really good book to get you started. Unassuming, friendly, and leads you right along where you need to go. Compared with the partisan stuff out of Microsoft, and some of the highbrow reference suitable for a "C/C++ programmer of 15 years," this hits a reasonable middle ground, and works well.